Bias Served Cold

The BBC files its final report on the idiotic intrepid Catlin arctic expedition to measure the devastating effects of global warming on the polar ice cap. Not surprisingly, the Beeb gives a lot of space to warnings of warmed-up doom and the expeditions "valuable" data, though they do seem reluctant to dwell on little matters such as the measurements Catlin failed to complete being done faster and better by the Germans, who had the good sense to use an aeroplane; that their own support plane had to abandon caches of fuel drums on the ice due to freezing blizzards; that the same cold and wind left the explorers trapped in their tent huddled in wet sleeping bags and suffering from chronic hypothermia; or that their methods weren't exactly of the first water.

But never mind if the Arctic turned out to be like, well, the Arctic. It was all in the service of Blessed Gaia and that's all that counts.